Posted by Robert Dilley on March 24, 2001 at 17:40:01 from 216.211.68.39:
In Reply to: Question on Peter Duck posted by Imre Wacha on March 23, 2001 at 17:24:30:
1715 was of some significance, in that it contained the first Jacobite rising in Scotland (the attempt to oust the Hanoverians from the British throne and replace tham with the previosly-ousted Stuarts) and the defeat of the uprising on November 13. I can't imagine this as being celebrated by a line of Lowestoft pipes, however -- the explanation that the pipe-makers were founded then and in 1915 were celebrating their bicentenary seems much more plausible. (1715 also saw the first dock opened in Liverpool, the suspension of Habeas Corpus and the passing of the Riot Act, but none of those seems suitable for Lowestoft to celebrate, either).
Let me join in congratulating Imre on his impeccable English. I have just finished marking a bunch of third-year university geography papers in which the place-name Bavaria was spelled eleven different ways, despite the fact that it appeared in the question. And this is supposed to be an English-speaking institution.